Training to Build Strength
Find Courses that Create Opportunities for the Future
For young people, opportunities for self-expression, to learn new experiences, and to find a sense of belonging are critical to healthy development and the ability to reach one’s full potential.
For adult domestic violence survivors, building confidence and self-esteem are critical to break the cycle of violence. When a survivor is self-confident and able to maintain meaningful employment, the risk of landing in an abusive relationship decreases significantly.
At Synergy Services, several of our campuses offer training courses to empower both adolescents and adults to help them along the path to a positive, safe, and rewarding future.
We also offer opportunities for community members and systems professionals such as law enforcement and child welfare professionals to learn about the dynamics of child abuse, process of disclosure, the benefits of collaboration and supporting healing for our families.
Training at the Youth Resiliency Center
We encourage all youth to use the Youth Resiliency Center as a drop-in location. There, teens can take a hot shower, do laundry, access the internet, and receive meals, hygiene items, and clothing. Youth also have access to the YRC for mental health services and case management. Â
Synergy’s Youth Resiliency Center offers a training program we created called EXCEL©. This stands for Expanding Capabilities and Employment Levels, and it is a curriculum to teach participants life and job skills that enable them to become self-sufficient.
When we can help strengthen these life skills, participants can conquer their fear of failure and are challenged to reach their full potential.
The program includes five core workshops:
These core areas can be enhanced by adding any of nine optional workshops:
Training at the Children’s Advocacy Center
Our expert team conducts training for the Kansas City community to learn about the purpose of Children’s Advocacy Centers and what we each can do to support our community’s children. If you or your organization would like to host one of the below trainings for your team or to find the next training date, email tclark@synergyservices.org.
CAC 101Â
CAC 101 is a training about the basics of the CAC. It includes an explanation of the Multi-disciplinary Team approach to investigating child abuse; brief explanation on the Process of Disclosure; tips for cursory/initial interviews of children about sexual or other forms of abuse; and what to tell children and families about coming to the CAC for a forensic interview.
How Children Respond to Sexual Abuse
How Children Respond to Sexual Abuse training looks more in-depth at the process of disclosure of abuse. The course highlights why children delay disclosure, why they recant, why their stories might look or sound different at different phases of disclosure, and how the CAC process actively addresses these issues..
Stewards of Children® Training
Darkness to Light’s flagship training, Stewards of Children®, teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse. Through interviews with a very diverse group of people with lived experience, experts, and treatment providers, Stewards of Children® is one of the only award-winning, evidence-informed, adult-focused child sexual abuse prevention trainings in the United States proven to increase knowledge and change behavior.
MDTs: Effectively Using Resources to Help Child Victims
This training—also known as Child Protection Protocol training—uses a cooperative protocol to investigate child sexual and serious physical abuse cases. This training teaches participants how to better utilize resources and avoid duplicating efforts through collaboration and information sharing.
Mandated Reporter Training
This training will cover
- Mandated reporters’ legal responsibilities
- How to respond to suspicions, disclosure or discovery of abuse
- How to effectively report, and how to follow up with the case multidisciplinary team.
This training empowers mandated reporters with skills to protect children and appropriately respond to child abuse and neglect. Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse is a FREE online training that can be found at www.protectmokids.com. Synergy’s CAC staff can also offer this online training in a group setting to facilitate discussion.Â
Additional Training Available
If you are a member of the multi-disciplinary team and would like to be made aware of additional trainings available statewide and nationally, please contact us.
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